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Books give not wisdom where was none before,
But where some is, there reading makes it more.

— John Harington Epigram in Muses Library (1737)

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Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

From your confessor, lawyer and physician,
Hide not your case on no condition.

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Best fishing in troubled waters.

I fucked her once, but I minded my pullbacks. I sware I did not get it.

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Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

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Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

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Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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